A Japanese products tanker collided with a fishing vessel outside Ise Bay this morning, 18 March, resulting in damage to its starboard and injuries and damage to the fishing vessel. The Japan Coast Guard said […]
The removal of bunkers from ore carrier Stellar Banner, which ran aground outside Brazil’s Ponta da Madeira terminal, is expected to be completed around 22 March 2020. The Brazilian Navy said in a press statement […]
A Panamax bulk carrier owned by SwissMarine is being refloated after running aground on 3 March 2020. The 2007-built 76,525 dwt Aeolian Grace had been loaded with more than 65,000 tonnes of soybeans at commodity […]
Seafarer union Nautilus International has demanded an independent commission of inquiry into the handling of the criminal case against C. Yuriy, the Ukranian master of river cruise vessel Viking Sigyn, after a collision that caused […]
A Chinese cargo ship Guo Xing 1 sank off Japan’s northern coast on 1 March – one crew member was rescued while 13 seafarers are missing. The cargo ship collided with Japanese fishing vessel Eight […]
The roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) cargo ship Volcan De Teneguia reported a fire on board on 22 February, shortly after leaving its home port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, the second fire on board the […]
Twenty crew members on Polaris Shipping’s very large ore carrier (VLOC), Stellar Banner, were evacuated on 25 February 2020, after the vessel listed. South Korean shipowner Polaris told SAS that at around midnight UK time, […]
A Myanmarese seafarer died in a horrific accident after falling from a tanker docked at Taiwan’s Kaohsiung port. In the incident, which took place on 15 February, the 31-year-old man was coming down a rope […]
Polaris Shipping chairman Kim Wan-joong has been handed a six-month imprisonment and a year-long probation for his role in the fatal sinking of ore carrier Stellar Daisy. On 18 February 2020, Busan District Court handed […]
The Australian Federal Court Admiralty Marshal on Sunday arrested the YM Eternity container vessel in Port Botany, Sydney over an estimated AUD20 million (USD13 million) pollution debt. YM Eternity is the sister ship of the […]
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